Finally I put the question to him. I said, “Ebby, you say you don’t want to drink, you are not drinking today. What does this mean?”

He said, “Well, I have got religion.”

I said, “Well, what brand is it?”

Here’s an old gem that’s worth a read. In 1969, the US Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare’s Special Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics interviewed Bill Wilson during one of its hearings. The transcripts of that hearing have been floating around the net for some time now.